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What does hot-wire mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hot-wire? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (slang) to start an automobile engine by bypassing the ignition key wiring
  2. (slang) to steal a vehicle by bypassing the ignition key's security
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It's rather like showing you can hot-wire a car to start the ignition without keys.
Now he is trying to hot-wire the political system and speed away with the governorship.
One of my mates showed me how to hot-wire the ignition so I could have it away on my toes with the car as well as the sounds.
Or maybe somebody rich, who can hot-wire an election without waiting for the party.
He says while the joyriders tried to hot-wire many of the pieces of construction equipment, they only managed to start one machine.
The instructors taught me how to pick locks, hot-wire cars and get over barbed wire fences.

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